| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: her of the strength to stand. She could not even hope against hope;
she knew that Danglar was in deadly earnest. Danglar would not have
the slightest compunction, let alone hesitation, in carrying out his
threat. Terrified now, her eyes sought the Adventurer. Didn't the
Adventurer know Danglar as she knew him, didn't he realize that
there was deadly earnestness behind Danglar's words? Was the man
mad, that he stood there utterly unmoved, as though he had no
consideration on earth other than those carefully manicured finger
nails of his!
And then Danglar spoke again.
"Do you notice anything special about this gun I'm holding on you?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: their destruction.
Venator. Oh me! look you, master, a fish! a fish! Oh, alas, master, I
have lost her.
Piscator. Ay marry, Sir, that was a good fish indeed: if I had had the
luck to have taken up that rod, then 'tis twenty to one he should not
have broken my line by running to the rod's end, as you suffered him. I
would have held him within the bent of my rod, unless he had been
fellow to the great Trout that is near an ell long, which was of such a
length and depth, that he had his picture drawn, and now is to be seen at
mine host Rickabie's, at the George in Ware, and it may be, by giving
that very great Trout the rod, that is, by casting it to him into the water,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: but as nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice, it will
unavoidably happen, that in proportion as they surmount the first
difficulties of emigration, which bound them together in a common cause,
they will begin to relax in their duty and attachment to each other;
and this remissness will point out the necessity of establishing
some form of government to supply the defect of moral virtue.
Some convenient tree will afford them a State-House, under the branches
of which, the whole colony may assemble to deliberate on public matters.
It is more than probable that their first laws will have the title only
of REGULATIONS, and be enforced by no other penalty than public disesteem.
In this first parliament every man, by natural right, will have a seat.
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